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PAGE A10, KEIZERTIMES, APRIL 22, 2016 Celts struggle at plate Free swag By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes After starting out the sea- son with a fair amount of offense, the McNary High School varsity baseball team appears to have gone into hi- bernation, said Larry Keeker, McNary head coach. “We’ve had some good stretches, but the bad stretches came in league games when Josiah (Gilbert) doesn’t pitch. We haven’t scored a run with- out him on the mound,” he said. McNary is sitting in sixth place in the Greater Valley Conference with a record of 2-3 and games with three of the fi ve teams ahead of them in the league on tap this week. The Celts hosted the South Salem High School Saxons Tuesday, April 19, and missed a win after a promising start. In the fi rst inning, Celt Col- lin Young ripped a bases- loaded triple to right fi eld to give McNary a 3-0 lead. By the time the inning was over, McNary was up 4-0. Unfor- tunately, it wasn’t enough. The Saxons rallied to take the vic- tory 7-5. Last week, the Celtics picked up an 8-4 win over McKay High School Tuesday, April 12, and lost to Forest Grove High School 4-0 Fri- day, April 15. McNary’s eight runs against the Royal Scots had been the only scoring in the four games prior to play- ing the Saxons. “I think it’s our mentality at the plate,” said Celt Tan- ner Gordon. “When we go up swinging, playing aggres- sive and trying to jump on the pitcher we do a lot better than when we’re hanging around the plate trying to see pitches.” Teammate Trevor Gilbert said the team has struggled to pinpoint the exact causes of its KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Meredith Pyle of the OSAA passes out free sling bags, shorts and shirts care of the OSAA Foun- dation and a generous donation from Nike. Each athlete on the McNary High School track and fi eld teams received items worth about $70 each. KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Celt Collin Young heads to fi rst en route to a three-RBI triple in the game with South Salem High School Tuesday, April 19. strife. “I don’t think we’ve seen any pitcher that we can’t hit, but we struck out in a couple of big situations when we faced Forest Grove,” Gilbert said. The Celtics have been in the unforunate position of drawing nearly every team’s No. 1 pitcher, but Keeker didn’t see that as an excuse. “We’ve gotten into a slump either as an individual or team, and we have a tendency to try to do things that we don’t have to do. We end up swing- ing early or the timing is off,” Keeker said. While offense has lagged, the team made recent strides in cleaning up its defensive ef- forts. The Celts were averaging a handful of errors each time out prior to the McKay game, but have cut the tally consid- erably since. “Coach (Dave) Bartlett has been getting on us a good bit and having us focus on the good throw and not rushing it,” Gilbert said. “We’ve been working hard on defense and confi dence comes with preparation,” Gor- don added. The Celts were slated to face McMinnville Wednesday past press time. The team re- urns to Keizer to host Sprague High School Friday, April 22. The fi rst pitch is 5 p.m. Celts Hannah Childress and Krissy Kelty picked up wins in their respective tennis matches with McKay High School Tuesday, April 12. Kelty, a senior with a 3-4 record so far this season, picked up a win at No. 2 dou- bles with set scores of 6-1 and Q. Can I put plastic bags into the big blue recycle cart? A. Sorry, plastic bags cannot go into the blue cart because they get tangled in the sorting equipment and cause major delays. 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